[Rails] Re: Amateur Programmer

2008-09-08 Thread Russell Norris
not sure what @person.quizzes refers to [so this might not apply here] but if it refers to an ActiveRecord association you could use the sum method in ActiveRecord like @person.quizzes.sum(:some_field). link with more details: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Calculations/ClassMethod

[Rails] Re: Amateur Programmer

2008-09-08 Thread Pardee, Roy
Re: #1--you want to call either .to_i or .to_f on your now-string variables. The former converts to integer, the latter to a floating point number. Also (and read this next bit w/the voice of the Simpson's Comic Book Guy in your head) there is no compiler--ruby is an interpreted language, it h